High energy radiation from jets and accretion disks near rotating black holes
Asaf Pe'er
University College Cork
In recent years there is a rapid advance in understanding the
conditions that lead to launching of astronomical jets and their
internal properties. This is expected to be further enhanced with the
recent operation of the event horizon telescope (EHT), that is
expected to publish its first results in 2018. In this talk, I will
describe a serious of works we conducted recently aimed at testing the
observational signatures that discriminates between emission from jets
and accretion disks, test the jet power-black hole spin relation, jet
filling factor, and explain the rapid variability seen in blazars as
due to turbulence in the inner jet region